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Here are the guys at Reefari charters teaching you how to use soft plastics to catch awesome fish like Trevally and Fingermark. The video starts with the boys using the sounder to find a good spot to drop the soft plastic. They find a good gathering of fish and then the video leads into the […]

Underwater video of a fish taking a bait. The boys on Reefari must have been having a real slow day. The decided to attach a GoPro video camera to one of their lines to catch all the action of a fish taking a bait. The funny part about this video is that they actually caught […]

This was more fun than top shelf scotch in first class with a bevy of cheerleaders, but we still didn’t have any reds. Greg furrowed his brow and ran his finger over the GPS and pointed to one particular mark. He reckoned it was the one, so off we headed! What followed was mayhem, pure […]

Big nannygai and spangled emperor were coming up one after another and the swell was dropping out to nothing at all. It was amazing and by just after lunchtime we’d well and truly sated our need for fish to take home.

We arrived at – I’m sworn to secrecy – reef after sunset and as we all hit the sack we were pretty excited for what the following day would bring. We were not to be disappointed. Greg has a series of marks gained from years of experience, the generous contributions of the crew, and some from a database of net hang-ups kept by trawler operators, so we had no shortage of ground to explore.

Time for the Maroons to put some runs on the board, and they were still keen to fish the deep. With these wide deep marks, it pays to look after them and not too fish them too hard, They can be susceptible to overfishing. The Shipping Channel off Mackay, is now suffering from several years […]